The Manifest Image

This week we venture into the Latin American avant garde with Vicente Huidobro’s Non Serviam. The first of several manifestos establishing the artist’s Creacionismo (Creationism), a novel approach to poetry that radically leaves behind all pretences to naturalism. Ostensibly written in 1916, Non Serviam, becomes popular in the Paris of the early 1920s when Huidobro meets Picasso, Ersnt, Gris, Reverdy, and Apollinaire among others. This is the first in a series of episodes on lesser known manifestos in the english speaking world.

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This week, while we recover from technical difficulties, we bring you the first of a sporadic bonus-series on the philosophy of art and aesthetics. In this episode we look at the distinction between the content of a work of art and its form, as always mustering manifestos and artists along the way.

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This week, while Thomas and Ariel are away, we bring the second episode of Baseless Theories. Each episode we bring you a series of wild speculations that don’t make it into the regular podcast. This week, did Oscar Wilde forsee his own fall? Tune in to find out.

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This week, while Thomas and Ariel are away, we bring you a mini-episode the first of a recurring series: Baseless Theories. Each episode we bring you a series of wild speculations that don’t make it into the regular podcast. Did Matisse paint the first Francis Bacon? The first Rothko? Was he really Felix Valloton? Tune in to find out.

Paintings referenced are below. Feel free to share some of your favourite baseless theories.

Harmony In Red

https://www.henrimatisse.org/the-dessert-harmony-in-red.jsp

La Charge

https://www.collection.pictet/artwork/la-charge

L’Attente (Waiting)

https://artdone.wordpress.com/2022/03/16/felix-vallotton-painter-of-disquiet/felix-vallotton-waiting-1899-priv-coll/

The Fine Pin

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/757436

Le Mensonge

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Félix_Vallotton,_1898_-_Le_mensonge.jpg

French Window at Collioure

https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-matisse/french-window-at-collioure

Rothko

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/mcs/media/images/64129000/jpg/_64129537_rothko.jpg

View of Notre Dame (1914)

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78863

A Screaming Pope

https://www.francis-bacon.com/artworks/paintings/pope-ii

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This week, as we wrap up our Fauve digression, we take a look at a selection of Matisse’s Fauve paintings. In them we find the growth of Matisse’s personal style and draw from our previous episodes to understand his style and aesthetic concerns. Links below.

Luxe, Calme et Volupte, 1904

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxe,_Calme_et_Volupt%C3%A9#/media/File:Matisse-Luxe.jpg

Woman with a Hat, 1905

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_with_a_Hat#/media/File:Matisse-Woman-with-a-Hat.jpg

Madame Matisse, “The Green Line”, 1905

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Stripe#/media/File:Matisse_-_Green_Line.jpeg

La Joie de Vivre, 1905/6

https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/7199/Le-Bonheur-de-vivre-also-called-The-Joy-of-Life/

La Danse (1909, First Version)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_(Matisse)#/media/File:Henri_Matisse,_1909,_La_danse_(I),_Museum_of_Modern_Art.jpg

La Danse (1909/10)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_(Matisse)#/media/File:Matissedance.jpg

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This week, we discuss Sarah Stein’s notes on Matisse’s pedagogy from 1908. Sarah, sister-0in-law to Gertrude Stein, was a close friend of Matisse and a pupil in his academy. Her notes give us great insight into Matisse’s process and his approach to different mediums, sculpture, drawing, and painting. Through these we further deepen our understanding of his essentialism and poetic vision.

Works Discussed: Matisse On Art (1978) ed. Jack D. Flam

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This week we continue our series on Fauvism with Henri Matisse’s “Notes of a Painter” published in La Grande Revue on the 25th of December 1908. Matisse was one of the 20th century’s most influential artists and his work remains a towering testament to the power of levity and beauty. Join us as we explore his pictorial essentialism and the tensions between nature and expression that he sought to resolve through his art.

Reliable links to Matisse’s works are difficult to find in the UK for copyright issues but we encourage you to seek them out in print.



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This week we take a look at the life and times of Andre Derain, one of the leadings Fauves. We dive into his world with his letters to Vlaminck (1905-1909) as a guide and find them particularly moving. In this episode we touch on colour, light and shadow, and the very value of art. Struggling artists will no doubt find as much solace in his candid retelling of experience as we have.

Paintings Mentioned

Le Pecq, hiver 1904-1905 and Le Vielle Arbre 1905

https://www.beauxarts.com/expos/derain-la-revolution-fauve/#&gid=1&pid=2

Ball of Soldiers in Suresnes 1903

https://www.wikiart.org/en/andre-derain/ball-of-soldiers-in-suresnes-1903

Still Life on A Table 1904

https://www.wikiart.org/en/andre-derain/still-life-on-the-table-1904

Music 1904

https://www.wikiart.org/en/andre-derain/music-1904

Bacchus Dances 1906

https://www.wikiart.org/en/andre-derain/bacchus-dance-1906

The Dance 1906

https://www.wikiart.org/en/andre-derain/the-dance-1906

The Palace of Westminster 1906-1907

https://www.wikiart.org/en/andre-derain/the-palace-of-westminster-1907

Martigues Landscape 1908

https://www.wikiart.org/en/andre-derain/martigues-landscape-1908

Landscape Near Martigues 1908

https://www.wikiart.org/en/andre-derain/landscape-near-martigues-1908

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This week we take a look at a selection of Maurice de Vlaminck’s work including a few of his remarks about the loose movement which would come to be known as Fauvism. Although a painter fiercely resistant towards the aesthetic authorities of the past, Vlaminck was influenced by contemporaries like Van Gogh, and engaged in a thriving artistic scene with his friend André Derain.

Images: https://www.wikiart.org/en/maurice-de-vlaminck/all-works#!#filterName:all-paintings-chronologically,resultType:masonry

Written Sources:

“The Preface Letter” Translation: Lucy R. Lippard from Lettres, poèmes et 16 reproductions des oeuvres du peintre (1923)

Concepts of Modern Art: From Fauvism to Postmodernism, Ed. Nick Stangos, chp. “Fauvism” by Sarah Whitfield (1994) Thames and Hudson, London.

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This week we take a look at Henri Rousseau's The Dream (1910), his relationship with Guillaume Apollinaire, and wether one can trust an artist's own explanation of their work.

The Dream: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79277

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